"In a critical arc that spans from the early years of the People’s Republic of China to contemporary AI gadgetry, Xuenan Cao highlights the junctures where the shortage of printing and computing have become the unlikely accelerants of technological ambition." About the Author: Xuenan Cao is Professor and Chair of General Education at San Francisco Bay University and Adjunct Faculty of Cultural Faculties at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, having previously taught at Duke University, New York University-Shanghai, and Yale University. She has published in venues for both humanities and computer sciences, including Grey Room, boundary 2, Theory, Culture & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Media, Culture & Society, PMLA, AMCIS, NeurIPS, among others. Date:11 December 2026 (Friday) Time: 10:00 am - 11:30 am Venue: Room 201, Leung Kau Kui Building (KKL), CUHK Moderator: Prof. Pang Laikwan (Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK) Co-organisers: Centre for Cultural Studies, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, CUHK Enquiry: cuccs@cuhk.edu.hk